Guess who's back haahhah. Man it has been so long since I updated, I give you my sincerest apologies and deepest gratitude to those who are still reading my story. I kinda had a lot of set back I mean, in summer I had no stable internet connection, and now I still have to cope up with the Grade 11 thing our government is implementing. Well enough of the hellos, without further ado CHAPTER 9!
PS please read author notes cuz I'm gonna anounce something.
Chapter 9
"Oh it's you, stop scaring people like that, and what's with that outfit of yours?"
"..."
"Oy, what happened to you? You seem different than usual."
"..."
"Are you ignoring me or something?" Misaka's tone change into a slightly annoyed one.
"Sorry for intruding in your conversation, but I believe that it's about time to get started" A tall man suddenly interrupted as he walked towards the side of Touma. It was the magician that has been controlling Touma, Mikael.
"Who are you?" Misaka declared in a slightly hostile manner. Her expression showed a little surprise since she didn't see nor feel the person that suddenly arrived.
"Sorry for my poor manners, I'm merely someone who seeks peace" Mikael smiled at his statement and raised his hand in a glorifying manner.
"Peace...?" Misaka's face showed signs of confusion.
"Well an esper like you wouldn't understand so there's no use in explaining, as for formalities sake you can call me Mikael" His tone changed from joyful to somewhat downhearted.
"What do you want?"
"Well you see #3-san, outside of your so called perfect city is the realm of magic. For centuries now there has been a balance between the science and magic side, because of this balance, peace reigned. But due to a certain faction things have been a little out balanced and this guy has been the source of this imbalance" Mikael said as he tapped Touma's shoulder.
"What?"
"Well to put in a more perspective sense, this city is breaking that balance. I'm not really expecting you to know about this since that guy can keep anything hidden. Let us see, to put it into words I am the bringer of peace" He stood at Touma's side with a face of an amused person.
"What are you blabbering about?! And what does that idiot have to do with this?!"
"Calm down. Don't worry, we have all day. See for yourself"
"What?" Her voice was now calmer but hostility still emanated from it.
As Misaka scanned her surroundings, she noticed something different. The usual calm atmosphere the park has, had been replaced by an ominous feeling. She looked around and she noticed that there were no people passing by. Even though there is a road just beside the park it was completely empty.
"What did you do?"
"I just used a little magic so that no one could disturb us. Besides, I doubt you want people here. Back to my explanation, because of this guy and his faction he singlehandedly tipped the scales between science and magic. It's a little impressive if I say so myself. Due to the scales being tipped it seems that the science side has been a little daring lately."
"Daring?"
"Your side has been doing a little experiment, but I guess you wouldn't know about this since your just one of their puppets. The science side has been doing a project that can end the magic side as we know it"
"..." Misaka couldn't say anything for she know that academy city were doing a lot of dangerous experiments. She can't deny the fact that the city itself maybe a one big experiment, but the way Mikael described it, it seemed to be a bigger experiment and that she haven't heard of it from anti-skill nor from judgement means that it was made sure to not be found out.
"That project isn't really something that bad, well in the proper hands that is, but I am mere simple man and just want simple. I believe that since they are trying to obtain power through magic it would be better off that we the magic side should use it. Don't you think so?" He gave off a smile that resembles a psycho.
"What the heck are you talking about?"
"Like I said, an esper like you wouldn't understand. Well to put it simply, the project that this city is doing can give me an unparalleled power. But to get that power I have to remove some troublesome people and those people are those who stands between me and my objective."
"..."
"Well #3-san your part of them, don't take it personally, it's all business"
"..."
"I think that's it for the explanation part. I think we should start with the fun. Besides, controlling this guy has given me a lot of leverage to do anything I want" He finished of his statement with a pat on Touma's shoulder.
"Controlling?"
Touma then started to walk slowly towards Misaka. Touma then stopped a few feet from where Misaka is standing. Dark aura could be seen growing around Touma as he stood there with a blank expression. On the other hand, Misaka was in deep thought trying to figure out what was happening. Before she realized it, cold sweat began dripping from her face. She had faced many formidable enemies that possessed unique abilities, but she knew that her on true weakness, Her one true weakness, was right in front of her.
"H-hey I-idiot, stop joking around, this isn't funny anymore. And what's this being controlled thing? Couldn't that right hand of yours negate all abilities?" Misaka mustered all her courage and strengthened her will.
This time it was her time to help the person who saved more than 10000 of her sisters. Failure wasn't an option here and she knew it. She need to give it her all so that she can bring back that idiots senses to normal.
"Looks like it has come to this huh. I still don't know what happened to you, or to why are you in this state. But, I'll bring you back your senses even if I have to beat you into it!" She clenched her fist as she strengthened her conviction. She glared Touma as she created some sort of magnetic and electric aura.
And so the fight begun.
Misaka moved first knowing that she had an advantage in speed. She knew that all her esper abilities are nothing compared to the ability that Touma possess. But it's only in his right hand, or so she taught as she launched multiple lightning attacks, Touma didn't even bother to budge as he took the attacks head on. A normal person taking that kind of attack would leave him unconscious for at least a day. Yet Touma took the attack head on and didn't even show signs of being affected.
'What the?'
"Oh, I almost forgot. I kind of gave him an armour that's kind of imbued by magic. So yeah have fun with that"
'YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?!'
Fighting her friend was one thing but fighting something she doesn't understand is just outright outrageous. While thinking about her next move, she didn't notice that Touma started running towards her. She only realized at the last moment where Touma was already swinging his fist ready to hit Misaka.
Gathering all her concentration, she gathered her Iron Sand around her body in order to position herself out of Touma's attack range. She dodged Touma's attack by an inch just in the nick of time. She then jumped backwards in order to gain some distance between her and Touma.
"Are you seriously under his control?!"
"…"
Knowing that talking sense back to Touma wouldn't do anything, she changed her means of communication to the universal way, through fighting.
'What do I do? I can't use my electricity against him'
Touma was just standing, waiting for Misaka to make the first move. After a few seconds of thinking, she decided that to defeat Touma, she must take the risks. Misaka then enhanced her senses. By using her magnetism, pillars if Iron Sand started to emerge, there were around 12 pillars surrounding the park. Then, Iron Sand surrounded her wrist, ankle and waist forming what seemed to be an armband and a belt.
"Let's go!"
Misaka then dashed with amazing speed, closing the distance between her and Touma in a blink of an eye. The reason behind her speed were the forces that were exerted by the Iron pillars around her, propelling and attracting he whole body.
"Even though I've relied on my ability, it doesn't mean I don't know how to punch!" Misaka said as she readied a punch with her right hand.
As Misaka threw her punch, Touma raised his hands and crossed them in order to guard. Not like her electrical abilities, her attack was now a physical one, so it can't be negated. In order to fill up the gap of strength, she used her speed to strengthen her hits. After taking the hit, Touma staggered a little, he was not the only one that took damage, because of the magically enhanced armour, Misaka's hand was now in pain that felt similar to punching a wall. Clutching her hands Misaka felt pain surging through her knuckles.
"You know, you were a better rival when you still had the ability to talk. Now, it just feels like I'm fighting Pinocchio"
"…"
"Not going to react to that joke?"
"…"
"Fine, let's try this again shall we"
Misaka then readied herself, after taking a few short breaths she leaped towards Touma and closed the small distance between them, breaking the sound barrier with it. She launched a furry of attacks and Touma also launched his. A jab, a hook, a kick, Misaka's attacks looked like a dance in mid-air. Touma's attacks were more precise and conserved, waiting for openings in his opponents attacks, but he was still able to block or dodge all incoming hits. Similar to Touma, Misaka was not also able to dodge all incoming hits. The two of them danced for a few minutes, exchanging hits like presents on Christmas.
'This isn't getting anywhere, but'
After a while, Misaka noticed that thw wall was now starting to get softer. It seemed that the armour that should be protecting Touma was starting to wear off. Just as she was about to speed up her attacks, a punch straight to the gut interrupted her momentum.
Before she could recover from the damage, another punch was sent to her face. Blood started to drip from her nose, she was blown away a few feet because of the force of the punch. Just as she was about to stand, another uppercut was sent to her stomach lifting her up a few inches. Blow after blow Misaka's body was getting pumpled by each passing second. She couldn't counter, the only thing she could do was raise her arms in an attempt to defend herself but that didn't really help much, the punches she received still felt like trucks ramming her. Even with the superhuman speed she possessed, she couldn't dodge all incoming hits and it seemed that Touma was getting faster by the second. Then a strong punch was sent, and she blocked it in the nick of time, but it was still able to send her flying. The reason she couldn't escape was because of the barrage of punches, since of it her concentration was heavily damaged in each blow, resulting to her being incapable to use magnetism properly.
"Hey idiot… Where did that heroic sense of yours go?"
"…"
"Will you really… Let that guy...do what he wants?" Misaka said while coughing heavily.
"…"
"Still nothing huh…?"
The both of them glared at each other, both trying to catch their breaths. No one dared to move, knowing that one wrong move would lead to their defeat. Just as silence started to reign over, a gust of wind blew. Fluttering in the wind, to which Misaka's hair flowed along with the gentle breeze. Fixing herself, she removed the dirt from her uniform,.
"Hey… It's about time we finish this"
"…"
Inhaling deeply, she took out her arcade coin from her pocket. She extended her right arm clutching the coin in her hand. Then she formed her fist into a position of flipping a coin. Inhaling once more, she flipped the coin, soaring through the air, the coin rotating many times until it reached its peak height, and started to fall towards Misaka's hand. As if on synch, she exhaled and the rotating coin landed on her baled fist. Then, a laser like light that carries millions of volts of electricity which can penetrate almost anything was fired, this was her famous move, the Railgun.
The Railgun flew through the air aimed at Touma, it only took it a few seconds to reach Touma, but it was blocked by Touma right hand, the legendary Imagine Breaker. The two powerful abilities clashed for a few seconds, but the Railgun was completely stopped by the Imagine Breaker. The two still glared at each other not letting off the ferocity they are emitting.
"Figures… That wouldn't work, but that armour of yours seems to be weakening"
"…"
Without saying anything else, Misaka got a few more coins from her pocket. Now, both if her hands were clutching more than a dozen coins.
"I haven't really mastered this. Let me show you my new and improved Railgun!"
Misaka declared throwing all the coins into the air. The coins flew at different speed. Flying through the air, the coins were scattered around MIsaka. Then, after a few seconds the coins started to fall down. Just before one of the coins would reach the ground, all the coins started to glow, emitting a white light. Then, as if on cue, all the coins were fired, leaving a white trail of light at the same time, all directed at Touma. Multiple beams were fired from all directions, even with the Imagine Breaker, Touma could only guard one attack, and thus he crossed his arms trying to brace himself. All the coins struck at the same time, thus resulting in a cloud of dust rising.
"The Railgun when fired individually doesn't really do much damage. But because every attack was directed into one target, the damage can be devastating"
"That attack wasn't really stable enough, since using magnetism as a way to increase the conduction rate of each coin doesn't really ensure the power to be stable and it can"t be easily manipulated, also this attack eats a lot of energy. But, I think the price to pay was worth it" Misaka added as she knelt down with one knee, fatigue clearly evident on her face.
With her fading consciousness, Misaka stared at the result of her attack. A cloud of dust still covered the area. Touma couldn't be seen through the dense cloud, situation was unknown. Still trying to cling to her fading consciousness, Misaka continued to stare at the cloud of dust, trying to figure out what happened. As she continued to stare, a figure formed in the cloud of dust. It was Touma's figure standing in the middle of the destruction.
Touma's figure could be seen, still standing with his arms crossed. At first glance, Touma could be seen as completely fine, but upon closer inspection, bruises could be seen all over his body. Both stared at each other, trying to catch their breaths. In the perspective of a stranger, both could be seen as equally matched but, in comparison, Misaka took more damage and had clearly depleted more of her energy.
Touma was the first one to break the standstill. While his left shoulder was bleeding, he limped towards Misaka. On the other hand, Misaka tried to unleash another Railgun but utterly failed. Her body was so weak she was kneeling down on one knee, she could barely lift her hands, and her consciousness was slowly fading. By the second, Touma continued to get closer to MIsaka. Apparently most of Misaka's attack damage was absorbed by the magical armour but was still able to deal considerable damage to Touma. He was just left with enough strength to struggle and finish the fight.
With every step Touma took, Misaka's heart began to beat faster. Knowing she can"t do anything she merely knelt down and looked towards Touma. Each second seemed to last longer than an hour in her perspective. The gap between the two was crossed by Touma after a minute, standing in front of Misaka. He raised his right hand and balled it into a fist. Misaka held her breath and closed her eyes, knowing that this might be the end of her life. Then , Touma swung his fist, but different from what MIsaka expected, no attack connected with her weakened body. When she opened her eyes, she saw Touma slowly falling down. Just like that, Touma lay motionless at the side of Misaka. Still with a stunned and confused reaction, she continued to stare dumbfounded where Touma stood.
"What the!" Mikael was the one to voice out his shock first. He was just standing at the side-lines watching the fight with an amused expression, but that amused expression was now replaced by an annoyed and confused one.
"What the hell happened?! Those attacks shouldn't have destroyed me magic in him! With that armour his body should have surpassed the limits of a normal human!" Mikael said as he walked closer towards where Touma laid.
Mustering all her strength, she stood up and spread her arms.
"I won't let you near him!" Strengthening her will, she stood there separating Touma and Mikael. Holding on to her last wavering consciousness, Misaka glared at Mikael.
"You bitch! Get out of my way!" Mikael said as he swung his arm, then a violent gust of wind erupted.
Misaka's instincts knew it is some kind of invisible attack, all of her senses told her to dodge but, with her Iron will she stood there. She convinced herself, it was time that she was the one who will be protecting the one precious to her. Closing her eyes, she took in a deep breath, thinking about all the good times she spent together with him, all the fights they had, all the adventures they did together, all the laughs they shared, all the random encounters that had happened, and all the fun things that could still happen, and if ever given the chance… To say her true feelings, then maybe she-
A/N
Mwhaahahha how did you like it? was it bad? I havent really been updating this story so im sorry if theres some missing or unexplained parts. Also if you noticed my style in writing has changed its because of the new story im writting...
YES I'M WRITING A NEW STORY AHAHA... Well actually its not a fanfic its an original story so, please support my new story entitled:
"The Royal Queen and The Lowly King"
I know its a bit long for a title i mean hey why not ahhaha. also I'M NOT GIVING UP ON THIS STORY I WILL BE FINISHING IT!
DON'T RUN AWAY! DON'T RUN AWAY FROM WRITING! THAT'S AN ORDER.. hahah too much reference, well thats all for now as usual please Rate and Review...
"Don't forget there is always hope"
-ASH
